Nature

Cut this worm into 279 pieces, and you can get 279 new worms

Planarian flatworms can regenerate a complete new body, head, brain and all, from a tiny fragment of their original tissue. Biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan documented in 1898 that even a piece as small as 1/279th of the original worm could grow into a whole new animal. Their bodies stay packed with adult stem cells able to become any cell type needed.

Thomas Hunt Morgan, Experimental Studies of the Regeneration of Planaria maculata — Archiv fur Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen, 1898

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